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Ask HN: I created a news shortening algorithm and am not sure how to utilize it

I've been developing my own algorithm for news shortening. Basically, it takes a news article from the site, does some calculations and spits out up to 5 the most important sentences. Demo can be seen here https://excerptdaily.com

I created it because I read news and I hate reading Bible-size articles full of unnecessary information just to find the main point

It has a purpose, it really does solve a problem: * Save people's time * Inform you as fast as possible * Give you the main point of an article in 5 sentences * Save you from clickbait or half clickbait titles

Starting my own news website without any connections or audience doesn't make sense, also I'm bad at marketing. I firmly believe this is a very good solution. I just don't know yet how to utilize it?

Should I offer the power of algorithm to some podcast that have audience and their own news website, should I offer it to someone who wants to build a news website...

42 points superdario 4 years ago 63 comments

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